1: Congratulations, Sister Donna Marie, on your retirement. On these pages are the well-wishes of many of your friends and colleagues. Though no pen and ink can take the place of the respect and love we have for you, we hope this book will remind you whenever you pick it up. As you have said to all of us... May God hold you, in his gentle care. Thank you for the privilege of serving beside you.

3: ___________________________________________________________________________________________ | ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. Lao Tzu

12: God often chooses weak instruments in order that his power might be manifested. Otherwise it would seem that the good was done by the clay, rather than by the Spirit. Bishop Fulton Sheen | _____________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________

13: O God take from me everything that is mine and take what is in me for your service. If this gift is pleasing to you, increase in me the desire to love. Blessed Celine Borzecka, C.R. | ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

32: A religious man is a person who holds God and others in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. Abraham Joshua Heschel | ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

43: _______________________________________ _______________________________________ _______________________________________ _______________________________________ | _______________________________________ _______________________________________ _______________________________________ _______________________________________ | _______________________________________ _______________________________________ Never be impressed with your authority but rather, remember it is a grace from God to be used for service. Isabella Wolowicki

62: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | Go forth and set the world aflame. Ignatius of Loyola

73: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ | Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me. Abraham Joshua Heschel

77: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | From eternity God has thought of us & loved us as unique individuals. Every one of us he called by name... only in the unfolding of our lives in the events of history is the eternal plan of God revealed to each of us. It is a gradual process... one that happens day by day. Blessed John Paul II

80: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | All things work for the good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. Romans 8 | _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

85: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ | The winds of grace are always blowing; it is for us to raise our sails. Ramakrishna

88: _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ | Trust in the slow work of God... ideas mature gradually... let them grow, shape themselves, without undue haste. Don't try to force them on as though you could be today what time will make you tomorrow. Teilhard de Chardin, S.J.

89: ________________________________________________________________________________________ | _____________________________________________________________________________ | ________________________________________________________________________________________ | Be kind. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

92: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | The task of leadership is not to put greatness into others, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. John Buchan

97: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | Greatness can be captured in one word: lifestyle. Life is God's gift to you, style is what you make of it. Mae Jemison

98: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | My Lord Jesus Christ... most merciful friend, may I know you more clearly, love you more dearly, and follow you more nearly, day by day. St. Richard of Chichester